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infairness

infairness is the alternative form of in fairness.

Meaning of in fairness

Prepositional phrase

  1. As a counterpoint; for the sake of balance; to lessen the harm.
    • Chelsea were given a debatable penalty for Eden Hazard to make it 2-1 in the first period of extra-time and it was another night of repeat offending from Costa. Mourinho, in fairness, focused on his team’s shortcomings rather than any misplaced sense of injustice and even called for Uefa to let...2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian (London)
    Synonyms:
    to be fair

Questions about infairness

What is infairness the alternative form of?
Infairness is the alternative form of in fairness.

Words near infairness in the dictionary

  1. INF
  2. inf.
  3. infacility
  4. infact
  5. infair
  6. infairness
  7. infairs
  8. infall
  9. infallen
  10. infaller
  11. infallers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infairness (page history and authors); in fairness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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